Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow. Neal A. Maxwell More Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell More Quotes From Neal A. Maxwell The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting! Neal A. Maxwell selfishness heavy hardest It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up. Neal A. Maxwell lifts size jobs We cannot lead or draw others to Christ unless we stand closer to Him than they do. Neal A. Maxwell draws christ The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. Neal A. Maxwell submission given giving In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma. Neal A. Maxwell exclamation exclamation-points grammar Never give up what you want most for what you want today. Neal A. Maxwell giving-up workout fitness You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms. Neal A. Maxwell rocks children world Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! Neal A. Maxwell ifs rooms jesus These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith. Neal A. Maxwell lds faithful adversity Listening is one of the forms of love. Neal A. Maxwell forms-of-love form listening The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others. Neal A. Maxwell adversity blow commitment Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experimental barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it. Just as correct principles, when applied, carry their own witness that they are true, so do correct personal improvement programs. But we must not expect personal improvement without pain or some 'remodeling.' We can't expect to have the thrills of revealed religion without the theology. We cannot expect to have the soul stretching without Christian service. Neal A. Maxwell pain christian thinking God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. Neal A. Maxwell ordinary home people The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings. Neal A. Maxwell release imperfection needs God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference! Neal A. Maxwell lds soul father While most of our suffering is self- inflicted, some is caused by or permitted by God. This sobering reality calls for deep submissiveness, especially when God does not remove the cup from us. In such circumstances, when reminded about the premortal shouting for joy as this life's plan was unfolded (Job 38:7), we can perhaps be pardoned if, in some moments, we wonder what all the shouting was about. Neal A. Maxwell self jobs reality How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat? Neal A. Maxwell endure heat fire If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light! Neal A. Maxwell light time children Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves. Neal A. Maxwell calling men christ We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable. Neal A. Maxwell assumption assuming justice
